Potrerillos Dam is located on the Mendoza River, in Argentina’s Potrerillos Valley. The dam was built between 1999 and 2003 by a consortium consisting of Industrias Metallurgicas Pescarmona and Cartellone. to provide flood control, hydroelectricity and irrigation water.

Divisadero Largo Nature Reserve area is characterized by presenting the transition or ecotone of the plant and animal species of the ecoregion monte with those that predominate in the high Andean ecoregion. Xerophilous plant species predominate, adapted to the aridity conditions of the area.